1 Nevertheless, that legend has stuck in my mind, and sunflower-bordered roads always seem to me the roads to freedom.
2 One could see that Frances had come down as a heroine in the family legend.
3 His father, and his father's father before him, and as many ancestors back as legend could go, had lived in that part of Lithuania known as Brelovicz, the Imperial Forest.
4 Here the speaker paused, and again looked around him to discover if his legend had touched the sympathies of his listeners.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 5 In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the peculiar charms of one who is not.
6 These sounds were, from time to time, heard by the servants, and revived in full force the memory of the old ghost legend.
7 This was merely a legend which had been spread some time after the Battle of the Cowshed by Snowball himself.
8 This legend was probably founded upon the fact, that Rebecca had attended on the wounded Ivanhoe when in the castle of Torquilstone.
9 The melancholy of the moor, the death of the unfortunate pony, the weird sound which had been associated with the grim legend of the Baskervilles, all these things tinged my thoughts with sadness.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House 10 He had heard also that Sir Charles was superstitious and had taken this grim legend very seriously.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 15. A Retrospection 11 It was during these fruitless quests that he, or rather his ally, was seen by peasants, and that the legend of the demon dog received a new confirmation.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 15. A Retrospection 12 The sudden legend startled his blood: he seemed to feel the absent students of the college about him and to shrink from their company.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 13 Side by side with his memory of the deeds of prowess of his uncle Mat Davin, the athlete, the young peasant worshipped the sorrowful legend of Ireland.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 14 It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows.
15 They have a legend here that when a ship is lost bells are heard out at sea.